EOFY Payroll submission errors - urgent- please someone reply

Hi LindyMH 

Thanks for your post. The ATO error code CMN.ATO.GEN.XML03 means that there are invalid characters in the payroll information. Invalid characters are "[ ] ! # $ % * ; = @ <>\ _ { } ^~`"

You'll need to check for (and remove) any invalid characters in your employee cards and payroll category names. Also check for spaces at the end of fields in the employee cards and payroll category names. 

If you have moved to STP Phase 2, terminated employees needed their termination dates removed and to be reactivated prior to the move. Once the move was completed you could re-enter their termination dates and make them inactive. If that wasn't done you will need to:

1. Remove the termination date from the employee card
2. Re-activate the employees
3. Check the employee details
4. Send an update event
5. Re-enter the termination date and make them inactive

If the AccountRight reports and YTD verification report don't reconcile you will need to undo the finalisation, reconcile those reports and then re-finalise. The post, AccountRight reports don't match STP reports, has detailed information to help with reconciling.

The post, EOFY FAQs and Resources 2022, has links to posts and Help Articles that you may find useful.

Please let me know if you need further help.

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